Things That Balance

WRIGHT, Robin

Potter, Tony

Foster, Teresa

HarperCollins, Publishers

Things That Float

Science & Math

Physics

The transformation of the Middle East is an issue that will absorb-and challenge-the world for generations to come; Dreams and Shadows is the book to read to understand the sweeping political and cultural changes that have occurred in recent decades. Drawing on thirty-five years of reporting in two dozen countries-through wars, revolutions, and uprisings as well as the birth of new democracy movements and a new generation of activists-award-winning journalist and Middle East expert Robin Wright has created a masterpiece of the reporter's art and a work of profound and enduring insight into one of the most confounding areas of the world.

Dreams and Shadows: The Future of the Middle East

History

Middle East

Penguin Publishing Group

"The Last Great Revolution is written with clarity and insight about Iran's tumultuous twenty-year Islamic revolution. Robin Wright speaks authoritatively about the Iranian republic's evolution, from the convulsive, vindictive early years of he revolution to the current uncertainties over experimentation with Islamic democracy. Her book is a valuable contribtion to our understanding of contemporary Iranian society and the possible directions this very important country make take in the future." — Senator Richard G. Lugar, Foreign Relations Committee Robin Wright, the acclaimed Mideast expert and foreign correspondent, returns to Iran, which she has visited more frequently than has any other American since the fall of the shah, to give us a portrait of the revolution — a generation after Ayatollah Khomeini returned from exile to end 2,500 years of monarchy. She shows us how the Iranian revolution has taken on even greater importance since Khomeini's death, and how it transformed Iranian society as well as Islam. She describes the revolutions within the revolution that have resulted in a movement as radical in the world of Islam as Luther's Reformation was in the Christian world — empowering women, modernizing social traditions, creating a fiesty, independent cinema and arts industry and giving birth to a new generation that is redefining Iran's political agenda. Wright makes abundantly clear why she believes the Iranian revolution will stand along with the French and the Russian as one of the three innovative revolutions — and the last great revolution — of the Modern Era.

The Last Great Revolution: Turmoil and Transformation in Iran

KNOPF

Robin Wright has reported from over 120 countries for many leading news organizations, but her perceptive coverage of Iran has garnered her the most respect and praise among her colleagues. In The Last Great Revolution, Wright meticulously describes the ongoing transformation of society, politics and religion that ranges from the empowerment of women to the blossoming of a movie industry and an independent press. She demonstrates why Iran's Islamic revolution equals the French and Russian revolutions in new ideas and impact, while standing alone as "the last great revolution" of the modern era.

Vintage

At the dawn of a new political era, the world is witnessing both violent upheaval and new opportunity on a scale unknown since the discovery of the New World. Reporting from all six inhabited continents, with new material on the Soviet Union’s collapse, award-winning journalists Robin Wright and Doyle McManus draw a vivid map of emerging trends that will shape the twenty-first century. It is a world in which: • Democracy is facing the same challenges socialism did; many new democracies will fail. • Economic strength is more important than military might; the superpowers are being replaced by “major powers” like Japan and Germany. • Ethnic and nationalist conflicts are redrawing the world map; dozens of new nations will be born in this decade. • Weapons of mass destruction are proliferating despite the Cold War’s end; smaller countries now pose the same threat as the bigger powers. • Migration, at a record high, has become a dangerous political issue dividing the wealthy North from the poorer South. • The power of the individual is spawning a new generation of unconventional leaders, rising from the masses, not the elite. Praise for Flashpoints “Alarming . . . intriguing . . . a cogent and thoughtful work . . . [by] two of America’s more accomplished journalists.”—San Francisco Chronicle “A timely and stimulating book.”—Senator Richard G. Lugar, Senate Foreign Relations Committee “A brilliant primer . . . fascinating.”—Walter F. Mondale

Flashpoints: Promise and Peril in a New World

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Ballantine Books

Examines the new fundamentalist Moslem revolution, looks at the car bombings of U.S. facilities in the Middle East, and clears up misconceptions about Islam, Iran, and modern terrorism

Sacred Rage: The Crusade of Modern Islam

Simon&Schuster

For a generation, Muslim extremists have targeted Americans in an escalation of terror that culminated in the September 11 attacks. Our shared confusion -- Who are the attackers? Why are we targets? -- is cleared away in a book as dramatic as it is authoritative. Updated with new chapters on Afghanistan and the the broader Islamic movement, Sacred Rage combines Robin Wright's extraordinary reportage on the Islamic world with an historian's grasp of context to explain the roots, the motives, and the goals of the Islamic resurgence. Wright talked to terrorists, militant religious leaders, and fighters from Beirut to Islamabad and Kabul. Their voices of rage reverberate here -- right up to the attacks in New York and Washington. Across continents extends a challenge we fail to understand at our peril. Sacred Rage now casts light on the war being fought in the shadows.

Sacred Rage: The Wrath of Militant Islam

Religion & Spirituality

Islam

Touchstone

The author chronicles the first ten years of the Iranian Revolution, employing an unprecedented access to Iran's major figures to outline the nation's importance to the rest of the world

In the Name of God: The Khomeini Decade

Americas

Touchstone Books

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